Born in 1968 at Ceyhan province of Adana. In 1987, entered the Painting-Handiwork Teaching Department at Gazi University and graduated in 1991. Assigned to teacher duty the same year. Gazi University Received Masters degree in 2002 and doctorate degree in 2006. She became an associate professor in 2011 and a professor in 2018. Opened fourteen personal exhibitions ten of which are international. Attended to 300 national and international mixed exhibitions.
33 books, one of which is a double author and the other is an editor and chapter writer; More than 130 scientific articles and papers were published in academic journals and symposium books. His academic publications have received over 1770 citations to date.
In addition, in 2022, 2023 according to the average of the last 5 years, AD Scientific Index was among the top 10,000 in the list, which was prepared based on open profiles in Google Scholar and listed the 800 thousand most cited academics.
He took part in dozens of national and international social responsibility projects. Mercin worked as an executive and as an expert in some of the Projects of UNESCO, UNICEF, EUROPEAN UNION, TUBITAK, BAP and Development Agencies. He was the manager of the founding project of DPÜ TV. He took part in the commissions that updated the Visual Arts Course, Technology and Design Course and Elective Visual Arts Course Curriculum. He also took part in the commission that prepared the books of these programs and served as coordinator. He served in the design centers monitoring committee of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. He took part as an executive in the official establishment and opening of the Private Ahmet Yakupoğlu Museum in 2023, and in moving the Kütahya Dumlupınar University Museum to its new building and activating it. He served as the chairman of the Visual Arts Education Association for two terms. Mercin, who is married and the father of three children, is currently a lecturer at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visual Communication Design Department and has been the Dean of the same Faculty since 2019.

Born in Turkey. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Ankara. In 1997, he was awarded by the then Turkish Minister of Tourism for his contributions to Turkish art and tourism. He graduated from Gazi University, Department of Fine Arts Education in 2005. He completed his master's degree in 2009 and his doctorate in 2011 at the same institution. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and has been accepted to group exhibitions abroad in cities such as Barcelona, New York, Singapore, Isfahan, Baku, Bucharest, Podgorica, and Tbilisi. He has 7 solo exhibitions in Sarajevo, Budapest, Kaposvar, and Tokyo. His art-works have been accepted into the inventory of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. He received the title of faculty member in 2012 and associate professor in 2020. He has been working at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cartoon and Animation since 2005.